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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:00:57 -0700, Chris DiBona wrote: >Hi.. > >that would be the IBM home and away card, available for about 30$. Has a >14.4 modem and a 10base-t port. Works great under linux, won't vouch for >win95/nt etc... as I have never tried it under these two os's. You can find >them at Fry's here in Silicon Valley. > > > Chris DiBona > I got mine a while ago for about $65 or $70, but the price is just right for that card. W95 drivers are strange, becuase you need to download a setup program off of IBM's BBS or FTP site, and it updates the FLASH RAM inside so Windows 95 autodetects it, but then you can't use it with other OSes. In fact, I am connected to my provider right now with the Home&Away so I can respond to my email, and it seems to work more reliably than the internal modem (tp701). One question though: How does someone go about getting it to work in Linux, either Red Hat, Slackware, or my favorite, Debian? I have a CD-ROM with all 3, and will install it sometime soon, but when I had it one before, I never figured out how to enable the ESS688, and the PCMCIA. Also, another thing about the Home&Away card is that the drivers that come with it are DOS/Windows 3.x only! You need a new revision for OS/2 support, and a seperate program for Win95, as mentioned earlier. I also noticed that the Novell client included is kind of flaky. Paul Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net